City-Bahn

The City-Bahn (CB) was a type of train transport in which from 1984 introduced the German Federal Railroad ( DB) to make secondary routes more attractive. For this old n- cars were modernized and introduced a dense interval timetable. With the increasing spread the DB changed the spelling Citybahn. The City Railway was replaced by city - Express.

Stretch

One of the routes was the link Cologne - Overath - Gummersbach- Meinerzhagen, which was opened on the Agger train and train Volmetal 1984 as Aggertaler. For operation attempt on the route threatened with abandonment n- cars were rebuilt to the then modern interior of VT 628.2 and pebble gray painted analogous to the S- Bahn Rhein -Ruhr in orange /. A café belonged to the facility. The trains of suitable painted locomotives of the series have been Strung 218 The modernized rolling stock and the hour led to significant passenger growth. From 1985, the new City -Bahn sets of Cologne drove to Gummersbach in part on the Volmetal train further on Marie Heath to Meinerzhagen; but only until May, 1986, after that it was only until Marie Heath, in May 1987, only until Gummersbach.

The second City railway line was from 1987, the Lower Elbe trains, where trains between Hamburg and Stade drove. Since the track is electrified locomotives of the class 141 were used.

In 1989, the use of city cars in the greater Hanover area and the Saar and in the Western Palatinate. There, the made-up specifically for this purpose n- cars were parked but only from 1990 available. There the Kaffeeküch bistro car also came in the first years after the model of the first City-Bahn in Cologne for use, mostly Saarhölzbach-Saarlouis-Saarbrücken-Homburg/Saar-Kaiserslautern on the relation.

In 1995, the City trains were renamed to the City Express, later dissolved regional rail and regional express trains, the City-Bahn train type as from. In Hanover, the S-Bahn Hannover stepped up to the heritage of the local City-Bahn.

• Train type ( Germany )